atta
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Contraction edit
atta
Usage notes edit
Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).
Noun edit
atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)
- (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
- 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 7:
- Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.
- 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books:
- The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.
Anagrams edit
Akkadian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta m (“thou”). Cognate with Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta) and Biblical Hebrew אַתָּה (ʔattɔ́).
Pronunciation edit
- (Old Babylonian) IPA(key): /ˈat.ta/
Pronoun edit
atta
- you, thou (second-person masculine singular personal pronoun, nominative case)
- 𒀀𒈾𒆪 𒅇 𒀜𒋫 [anāku u atta] ― a-na-ku u₃ at-ta ― you and I (literally, “I and you”)
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Akkadian personal pronouns¹ | |||||||||
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Independent forms | Pronominal Suffixes | ||||||||
Nominative | Oblique² | Dative | Predicative³ | Possessive⁴ | Accusative⁵ | Dative⁵ | |||
Singular | 1st | anāku | yâti | yâšim, ayyâšim | -āku | -ī, -ya | -anni, -nni, -ninni | -am, -m, -nim | |
2nd | m | atta | kâta | kâšim, kâšum | -āta | -ka | -ka | -kum | |
f | atti | kâti | kâšim | -āti | -ki | -ki | -kim | ||
3rd | m | šū | šuāti, šuātu, šâti | šuāšim, šâšim | - | -šu | -šu | -šum | |
f | šī | šuāti, šâti | šuāšim, šâšim | -at | -ša | -ši | -šim | ||
Plural | 1st | nīnu | niāti | niāšim | -ānu | -ni | -niāti | -niāšim | |
2nd | m | attunu | kunūti | kunūšim | -ātina | -kunu | -kunūti | -kunūšim | |
f | attina | kināti⁶ | kināšim⁶ | -ātunu | -kina | -kināti | -kināšim | ||
3rd | m | šunu | šunūti | šunūšim | -ā | -šunu | -šunūti | -šunūšim | |
f | šina | šināti | šināšim⁶ | -ū | -šina | -šināti | -šināšim | ||
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Chickasaw edit
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Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
atta (singular subject)
- (active voice, intransitive) to be born
- (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to live in
- Oklahommaꞌ ishattatok. ― You have lived in Oklahoma.
Inflection edit
Verbs beginning with a vowel. | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
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1st-person (I, we) | attali atta-li |
N/A | N/A |
2nd-person (you, you all) | ishatta ish-atta |
N/A | |
3rd-person (he, she, it, they) | atta |
N/A |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Choctaw edit
Verb edit
atta
- to live
Crimean Tatar edit
Noun edit
atta
Gothic edit
Romanization edit
atta
- Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
atta
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈat.ta/, [ˈät̪ːä]
Noun edit
atta m (genitive attae); first declension
- father (term of respect for an old man)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | atta | attae |
Genitive | attae | attārum |
Dative | attae | attīs |
Accusative | attam | attās |
Ablative | attā | attīs |
Vocative | atta | attae |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “atta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- atta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “atta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old Frisian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Proto-West Germanic *attō (“father”).
Noun edit
atta m[1]
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ von Richthofen, Karl (1840), “atha, atta, ettha”, in Altfriesisches Wörterbuch [Old Frisian Dictionary] (in German), Dieterich Göttingen, page 613
Old Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.
Numeral edit
ātta
Descendants edit
- Swedish: åtta
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
atta
Sicilian edit
Noun edit
atta f
- Alternative form of gatta
Turkish edit
Noun edit
atta
Yagara edit
Pronoun edit
atta
References edit
- State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.